Police beef up patrols during holiday weekend

State police have made 30 arrests for drunken driving in the first three days of their Thanksgiving holiday enforcement period and responded to 284 accidents on the state's roads in the same period.

One accident on Interstate 84 in Hartford was fatal, police said. State police responded to 30 crashes that involved injuries.

State police also made 634 speeding arrests, 122 arrests for motorists failing to wear seat belts, and 1,431 other arrests for traffic violations, including unsafe lane changes, following too closely, illegally using cellphones and failure to use turn signals.

State police began extra patrols and staffing sobriety checkpoints Wednesday in an effort to nab drunken drivers and plan to continue through Sunday.